Rest in My Heart and Fortify Me

Answers may not be the thing

Landscape at Le Pouldu, by Paul Gauguin (1890)

The weight inches closer and closer, doesn’t it? This week I learned three friends got the virus. I spent time with that New York Times’ series on people we’ve lost. I listened to John Prine and sang his songs. I thought almost constantly about families — thousands and thousands of them — who can’t mourn wi…